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<entry>
<title>arm64: Add workaround for Cortex-A76 erratum 1286807</title>
<updated>2018-11-29T16:45:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-19T11:27:28+00:00</published>
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On the affected Cortex-A76 cores (r0p0 to r3p0), if a virtual address
for a cacheable mapping of a location is being accessed by a core while
another core is remapping the virtual address to a new physical page
using the recommended break-before-make sequence, then under very rare
circumstances TLBI+DSB completes before a read using the translation
being invalidated has been observed by other observers. The workaround
repeats the TLBI+DSB operation and is shared with the Qualcomm Falkor
erratum 1009

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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On the affected Cortex-A76 cores (r0p0 to r3p0), if a virtual address
for a cacheable mapping of a location is being accessed by a core while
another core is remapping the virtual address to a new physical page
using the recommended break-before-make sequence, then under very rare
circumstances TLBI+DSB completes before a read using the translation
being invalidated has been observed by other observers. The workaround
repeats the TLBI+DSB operation and is shared with the Qualcomm Falkor
erratum 1009

Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/arm64: HugeTLB page implementation</title>
<updated>2018-10-10T17:08:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Punit Agrawal</name>
<email>punit.agrawal@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-08T10:03:55+00:00</published>
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Arm v8 architecture supports multiple page sizes - 4k, 16k and
64k. Based on the active page size, the Linux port supports
corresponding hugepage sizes at PMD and PUD(4k only) levels.

In addition, the architecture also supports caching larger sized
ranges (composed of multiple entries) at the PTE and PMD level in the
TLBs using the contiguous bit. The Linux port makes use of this
architectural support to enable additional hugepage sizes.

Describe the two different types of hugepages supported by the arm64
kernel and the hugepage sizes enabled by each.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Arm v8 architecture supports multiple page sizes - 4k, 16k and
64k. Based on the active page size, the Linux port supports
corresponding hugepage sizes at PMD and PUD(4k only) levels.

In addition, the architecture also supports caching larger sized
ranges (composed of multiple entries) at the PTE and PMD level in the
TLBs using the contiguous bit. The Linux port makes use of this
architectural support to enable additional hugepage sizes.

Describe the two different types of hugepages supported by the arm64
kernel and the hugepage sizes enabled by each.

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Punit Agrawal &lt;punit.agrawal@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Add silicon-errata.txt entry for ARM erratum 1188873</title>
<updated>2018-10-10T16:53:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Zyngier</name>
<email>marc.zyngier@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-10T16:25:51+00:00</published>
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Document that we actually work around ARM erratum 1188873

Fixes: 95b861a4a6d9 ("arm64: arch_timer: Add workaround for ARM erratum 1188873")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Document that we actually work around ARM erratum 1188873

Fixes: 95b861a4a6d9 ("arm64: arch_timer: Add workaround for ARM erratum 1188873")
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: docs: Document SSBS HWCAP</title>
<updated>2018-10-01T15:28:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will.deacon@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-01T14:24:48+00:00</published>
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We advertise the MRS/MSR instructions for toggling SSBS at EL0 using an
HWCAP, so document it along with the others.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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We advertise the MRS/MSR instructions for toggling SSBS at EL0 using an
HWCAP, so document it along with the others.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: docs: Fix typos in ELF hwcaps</title>
<updated>2018-10-01T15:28:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Giacomo Travaglini</name>
<email>Giacomo.Travaglini@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-01T14:24:47+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Fix some typos in our hwcap documentation, where we refer to the wrong
ID register for some of the capabilities.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini &lt;giacomo.travaglini@arm.com&gt;
[will: fix amusing binary constants]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
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Fix some typos in our hwcap documentation, where we refer to the wrong
ID register for some of the capabilities.

Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Giacomo Travaglini &lt;giacomo.travaglini@arm.com&gt;
[will: fix amusing binary constants]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation/arm64/sve: Couple of improvements and typos</title>
<updated>2018-08-29T10:33:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Julien Grall</name>
<email>julien.grall@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-14T10:33:32+00:00</published>
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  - Fix mismatch between SVE registers (Z) and FPSIMD register (V)
  - Don't prefix the path for [3] with Linux to stay consistent with
    [1] and [2].

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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  - Fix mismatch between SVE registers (Z) and FPSIMD register (V)
  - Don't prefix the path for [3] with Linux to stay consistent with
    [1] and [2].

Signed-off-by: Julien Grall &lt;julien.grall@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2018-04-09T18:42:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-09T18:42:31+00:00</published>
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - VHE optimizations

   - EL2 address space randomization

   - speculative execution mitigations ("variant 3a", aka execution past
     invalid privilege register access)

   - bugfixes and cleanups

  PPC:
   - improvements for the radix page fault handler for HV KVM on POWER9

  s390:
   - more kvm stat counters

   - virtio gpu plumbing

   - documentation

   - facilities improvements

  x86:
   - support for VMware magic I/O port and pseudo-PMCs

   - AMD pause loop exiting

   - support for AMD core performance extensions

   - support for synchronous register access

   - expose nVMX capabilities to userspace

   - support for Hyper-V signaling via eventfd

   - use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

   - allow userspace to disable MWAIT/HLT/PAUSE vmexits

   - usual roundup of optimizations and nested virtualization bugfixes

  Generic:
   - API selftest infrastructure (though the only tests are for x86 as
     of now)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (174 commits)
  kvm: x86: fix a prototype warning
  kvm: selftests: add sync_regs_test
  kvm: selftests: add API testing infrastructure
  kvm: x86: fix a compile warning
  KVM: X86: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"
  KVM: X86: Introduce handle_ud()
  KVM: vmx: unify adjacent #ifdefs
  x86: kvm: hide the unused 'cpu' variable
  KVM: VMX: remove bogus WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig
  Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
  kvm: Add emulation for movups/movupd
  KVM: VMX: raise internal error for exception during invalid protected mode state
  KVM: nVMX: Optimization: Dont set KVM_REQ_EVENT when VMExit with nested_run_pending
  KVM: nVMX: Require immediate-exit when event reinjected to L2 and L1 event pending
  KVM: x86: Fix misleading comments on handling pending exceptions
  KVM: x86: Rename interrupt.pending to interrupt.injected
  KVM: VMX: No need to clear pending NMI/interrupt on inject realmode interrupt
  x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
  x86/hyper-v: detect nested features
  x86/hyper-v: define struct hv_enlightened_vmcs and clean field bits
  ...
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - VHE optimizations

   - EL2 address space randomization

   - speculative execution mitigations ("variant 3a", aka execution past
     invalid privilege register access)

   - bugfixes and cleanups

  PPC:
   - improvements for the radix page fault handler for HV KVM on POWER9

  s390:
   - more kvm stat counters

   - virtio gpu plumbing

   - documentation

   - facilities improvements

  x86:
   - support for VMware magic I/O port and pseudo-PMCs

   - AMD pause loop exiting

   - support for AMD core performance extensions

   - support for synchronous register access

   - expose nVMX capabilities to userspace

   - support for Hyper-V signaling via eventfd

   - use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V

   - allow userspace to disable MWAIT/HLT/PAUSE vmexits

   - usual roundup of optimizations and nested virtualization bugfixes

  Generic:
   - API selftest infrastructure (though the only tests are for x86 as
     of now)"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (174 commits)
  kvm: x86: fix a prototype warning
  kvm: selftests: add sync_regs_test
  kvm: selftests: add API testing infrastructure
  kvm: x86: fix a compile warning
  KVM: X86: Add Force Emulation Prefix for "emulate the next instruction"
  KVM: X86: Introduce handle_ud()
  KVM: vmx: unify adjacent #ifdefs
  x86: kvm: hide the unused 'cpu' variable
  KVM: VMX: remove bogus WARN_ON in handle_ept_misconfig
  Revert "KVM: X86: Fix SMRAM accessing even if VM is shutdown"
  kvm: Add emulation for movups/movupd
  KVM: VMX: raise internal error for exception during invalid protected mode state
  KVM: nVMX: Optimization: Dont set KVM_REQ_EVENT when VMExit with nested_run_pending
  KVM: nVMX: Require immediate-exit when event reinjected to L2 and L1 event pending
  KVM: x86: Fix misleading comments on handling pending exceptions
  KVM: x86: Rename interrupt.pending to interrupt.injected
  KVM: VMX: No need to clear pending NMI/interrupt on inject realmode interrupt
  x86/kvm: use Enlightened VMCS when running on Hyper-V
  x86/hyper-v: detect nested features
  x86/hyper-v: define struct hv_enlightened_vmcs and clean field bits
  ...
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<entry>
<title>arm64: Add work around for Arm Cortex-A55 Erratum 1024718</title>
<updated>2018-03-26T17:01:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-26T14:12:49+00:00</published>
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Some variants of the Arm Cortex-55 cores (r0p0, r0p1, r1p0) suffer
from an erratum 1024718, which causes incorrect updates when DBM/AP
bits in a page table entry is modified without a break-before-make
sequence. The work around is to skip enabling the hardware DBM feature
on the affected cores. The hardware Access Flag management features
is not affected. There are some other cores suffering from this
errata, which could be added to the midr_list to trigger the work
around.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: ckadabi@codeaurora.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Some variants of the Arm Cortex-55 cores (r0p0, r0p1, r1p0) suffer
from an erratum 1024718, which causes incorrect updates when DBM/AP
bits in a page table entry is modified without a break-before-make
sequence. The work around is to skip enabling the hardware DBM feature
on the affected cores. The hardware Access Flag management features
is not affected. There are some other cores suffering from this
errata, which could be added to the midr_list to trigger the work
around.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: ckadabi@codeaurora.org
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Expose Arm v8.4 features</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T18:14:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-12T10:04:14+00:00</published>
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Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to
Arm v8-A profile.

These include :

 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT)
 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads
    and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT)
 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to
    LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC)
 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Expose the new features introduced by Arm v8.4 extensions to
Arm v8-A profile.

These include :

 1) Data indpendent timing of instructions. (DIT, exposed as HWCAP_DIT)
 2) Unaligned atomic instructions and Single-copy atomicity of loads
    and stores. (AT, expose as HWCAP_USCAT)
 3) LDAPR and STLR instructions with immediate offsets (extension to
    LRCPC, exposed as HWCAP_ILRCPC)
 4) Flag manipulation instructions (TS, exposed as HWCAP_FLAGM).

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arm64: Documentation: cpu-feature-registers: Remove RES0 fields</title>
<updated>2018-03-19T18:14:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suzuki K Poulose</name>
<email>suzuki.poulose@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-12T10:04:13+00:00</published>
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Remove the invisible RES0 field entries from the table, listing
fields in CPU ID feature registers, as :
 1) We are only interested in the user visible fields.
 2) The field description may not be up-to-date, as the
    field could be assigned a new meaning.
 3) We already explain the rules of the fields which are not
    visible.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
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Remove the invisible RES0 field entries from the table, listing
fields in CPU ID feature registers, as :
 1) We are only interested in the user visible fields.
 2) The field description may not be up-to-date, as the
    field could be assigned a new meaning.
 3) We already explain the rules of the fields which are not
    visible.

Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dave Martin &lt;dave.martin@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
</pre>
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